LFA Exec - Minutes - March 29, 2022

Library Faculty Assembly Executive Meeting

Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 10 am via Microsoft Teams

Attendees

  • LFA Executive Members: Angie Rathmel, Scott McEathron, Sara Morris, Erin Wolfe, Deborah Dandridge, and Lea Currie
  • Angie called the meeting to order at 10:00.
  • Minutes from the February 2, meeting were approved.

Old Business

  • LFA Chair/Vice-Chair Meeting with the Dean
    • Kevin announced that Librarians are now eligible for the University Scholarly Achievement Award. Kevin acknowledged that the review of the evaluation process has only been mentioned in Cabinet and he gave assurance that LFA has a part in Faculty evaluations. When the process starts LFA will be notified to participate. Regarding feelings of being overworked Kevin reported that he believed supervisors were having these discussions but was unable to provide examples. Kevin committed to this being on Cabinet’s agenda at a future date. Angie provided suggestions on how to do this for those in areas of the library where these discussions have not taken place.
  • Update from Code Committee
    • Angie presented the report on inequalities in the Code from the Committee on the Code (this charge came from LFSA). The section of the LFA code related to the Dean’s Fifth Year Review does not require any changes. There was a discussion concerning whether the LFA section of the Code needs to specifically address the appointment of individuals to External Committees. It was decided that the Assembly does not do this and consequently Exec did not see the need to seek this modification. The Vice/Chair duties of LSA do not match LFA—but after discussion it was decided that these did not need to match as the difference are related to structure of the two independent organizations. There will be no action taken from this report by LFA.
    • LFA should receive a report from the Committee on the Code concerning recusals on LCPT and SLPTR by April 1.

New Business

  • Nominations
    • Reviewed that the election needs to take place by May 15th.
    • Sara will reach out to LCPT chair concerning the vacancies for the upcoming year.
  • Spring Meeting
    • The committee reviewed the timeline for calling the meeting, having a document with potential changes to the Code, and then having the election.
    • We talked about various other topics for the agenda.
    • There was a motion to have the FLA meeting for 60 minutes and to be a standalone meeting—i.e., not partnered with an LFSA meeting.
      • Meeting will be on April 13th at 1 pm. Angie will send a save the date.

Adjournment

  • The meeting adjourned at 11:03.

Submitted by Sara E. Morris